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- In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
- Antonio Porchia, Voices
- There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
- The Talmud
- To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
- Edith Hamilton
- When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
- Edith Hamilton
- There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
- Peter Mere Latham
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